“God’s thoughts about us are as complex as we are. He doesn’t oversimplify us.”

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2016-03-01) from his book, (UN)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things (p. 42). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

David, the inspired writer of Psalm 139: 17 -18 (NLT) says, “How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!”

Steven says, “God’s thoughts about us are as complex as we are. He doesn’t oversimplify us. He doesn’t lump us into categories, label us with scientific-sounding names, and alphabetize us on shelves.”

But we do that don’t we? Steven says, “We look at ourselves in the metaphorical mirror, sigh in disgust, and pronounce things like this: I am a failure. I am an alcoholic. I am dumb. I am hopeless. Really? With one line, with one word, we sum up our entire identity, existence, and potential? With such flippancy we dismiss our calling and stamp ourselves unqualified?”

He goes on, “That’s ridiculous. No one is that simple. We are living, moving, changing, growing beings. There are more dimensions to our existence than the most complicated theories of wormholes and alternate universes could ever postulate. God himself refuses to reduce us to a single flat image. He doesn’t merge all our layers and levels into a two-dimensional image. He doesn’t sum us up in a word. So why do we?”

He then finishes this section by saying, “We need to give our complexity some credit. We have to embrace the fact that our identities are beautiful, delicate, and complicated things. They are works of art, and God has a lot invested in them. Are they a little worse for the wear? Probably. Could they use some restoration? Of course. But God is the restorer, and he is going to take his time to do the job right.”

So will you allow Him to continue to restore the work that He started when He created you?

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